The Southern Pacific, which had grown out of the first transcontinental railroad, was a huge force in California for 135 years, until the company was acquired by the Union Pacific railroad in 1996.

The roots of Southern Pacific Railroad's path through the Coachella Valley can be traced to the country's pre-Civil War days and the creation of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California ...

shared the history and importance of the railroad to the city and California’s central coast. Brad LaRose, director of the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum, shared the history and importance of ...

One of the darkest chapters in the turbulent history of the Southern Pacific railroad in California was the “Mussel Slough Tragedy,” which left seven men dead over a land dispute, turned a ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Mr. Justice Harlan has made a decision sustaining the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court for the Northern District of California ... the Southern Pacific Railroad Company ...

A historic railroad depot undergoing ... fire near the intersection of California Avenue and East 27th Street. When firefighters arrived, they found the Southern Pacific Railroad depot fully ...

One of the great paradoxes of California's history is that the state we identify with was built by a railroad. And for well more than half a century, that railroad, the feared Southern Pacific ...